Ten-year-old Natalie Carter, from Oxford, caught a massive redtail catfish weighing nearly 50lb while on holiday in Thailand.

The big fish took 45 minutes to land and she wasn’t finished there. She then caught a big snakeshead weighing around 7lb.

Natalie was fishing Ratchaburi Lake and both fish are believed to be international records for her age group.

Her father, David, said: “Others might have thrown down the rod and given up when the big fish was on, but she battled on.

“She refused to hand the rod over!”

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